ggplotly() ignores function applied to fill labels
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Description
When passing a function to the labels argument of scale_fill_discrete(), ggplotly() does not apply this function to the labels. This works fine, however, when passing the same function to scale_x_discrete().
df <- data.frame(a = c("A", "B"), b = c(7, 9))
p <- ggplot(df, aes(a, b, fill = a)) +
geom_col() +
scale_x_discrete(labels = tolower) +
scale_fill_discrete(labels = tolower)
p

plotly::ggplotly(p)

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Start by running the provided R example with ggplotly(), comparing the scale_fill_discrete(labels = tolower) result with scale_x_discrete(labels = tolower). Trace how ggplotly() handles these two scale entry points; done means the fill labels are transformed by the supplied function in the interactive plot as the x labels are.
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- r
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- data-visualization
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